Previously I’ve posted on Hackers using IRC to interact with Botnets and the relation between Baxandall’s three respects as explained by Barnard. Here I will lay out the basic argument of the work I have done for the pre-writing assignment.
I will be looking at the match between formal qualities and horizons of the hacker subculture showing why the hacker subculture uses IRC to interact with Botnets. I will show the HCI community that individual and subculture interpretation is important when it comes to design because designs are used in different ways by different groups of people shown using visual culture theories. As well formal qualities of the IRC protocol and IRC clients can be related to why the medium is used by the hacker subculture (especially in comparison to why they don’t use other chat/IM clients). Life worlds and horizons of different people and communities can be used to understand hackers interacting with IRC and Botnets specifically using Baxandall’s three respects, but also drawing on Hebdige and other theorists.
Finally, I would like to bring my own experiences into this since I have used IRC in the context of the hacker subculture (no, not controlling Botnets..). Is this relevant? Necessary? Would it be good to have? Worthless? Thoughts?
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November 16, 2010 at 6:54 pm
jeffreybardzell
You wrote:
For God’s sake YES! Please leverage your experience, your skill, your tacit knowledge. That personal experience contributes to your expertise and is therefore a *resource* to any serious understanding of the space. Do not bracket aside your own experience to try and be objectively empirical–you are a designer not a psychologist and have different intellectual needs.
November 16, 2010 at 6:54 pm
jeffreybardzell
Was that emphatic enough? I could put even more words in all caps, if needed. 😉
November 16, 2010 at 7:13 pm
robertjbegley
Yes 🙂 I just wanted clarification, THANKS!